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The 100 Greatest Americans Of The 20th Century
Peter Dreier
A Social Justice Hall of Fame [
Nation Books
July 2012
On Sale: June 26, 2012
500 pages
ISBN: 1568586817
EAN: 9781568586816
Kindle: B0080K3GDK
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Non-Fiction Biography
A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for
women’s suffrage, laws protecting the environment, an end to
lynching, or a federal minimum wage was considered a utopian
dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas
for granted— because the radical ideas of one generation are
often the common sense of the next. We all stand on the
shoulders of earlier generations of radicals and reformers
who challenged the status quo of their day.
Unfortunately, most Americans know little of this
progressive history. It isn’t taught in most high schools.
You can’t find it on the major television networks. In
popular media, the most persistent interpreter of America’s
radical past is Glenn Beck, who teaches viewers a wildly
inaccurate history of unions, civil rights, and the American
Left. The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th
Century, a colorful and witty history of the most
influential progressive leaders of the twentieth century and
beyond, is the perfect antidote.
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